Craig Holt, Author at Mississippi Sportsman

Fishing guide Jeff Wolfe caught this sheepshead, a typical-sized one for the summer. (Photo by Craig Holt)

Summer sheepshead tactics

July 19, 2022 Craig Holt

Chasing sheepshead with fiddler crabs and the right technique provides action and challenges for adults and children throughout the summer. […]

Using the tip of a toothpick, pushed through a soft-plastic bait and the eye of the hook, will help keep a Texas-rigged bait from sliding down. Break off both ends of the toothpick just outside the worm’s margins.

Stick a toothpick in it

August 5, 2019 Craig Holt

One of the best tools a bass fisherman can have, especially during the summer when fish live largely in deep, cool, oxygenated water, are toothpicks. […]

Lone gobblers whose hens are nesting are likely to be doing a lot of traveling, especially late in the morning and early in the afternoon, when they can be fooled and killed.

Be patient, stay late for late-season turkeys

April 25, 2019 Craig Holt

Turkey hunters find at the end of turkey season that most “easy” turkeys have been killed, and the remaining ones are more wary and won’t come to calls. […]

Draw a bead on bachelor-buck groups

September 3, 2018 Craig Holt

Hunters can pattern whitetail bucks twice a year, and both occur outside of hunting season.

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Knot of the month: Loop Knot

September 19, 2016 Craig Holt

Anglers Robbie Hall and Tommy Jones tie their soft-plastic lures to their leaders the same way — with a loop knot — and they get results. […]

Organize, store hooks with surgical tubing

September 16, 2015 Craig Holt

If you’re like many anglers, you have scads of hooks for different types of fishing because our finny targets have variable-size mouths. […]

Laser Game Marker helps find wild game

August 28, 2013 Craig Holt

Hunter’s Tech has developed a product, the Laser Game Marker, that will help deer hunters mark and track deer that are shot during the last few minutes of daylight. […]

Giles Island makes like-father-like-son wish come true

February 9, 2012 Craig Holt

Michael Rogillio was happy when his father Ricky Rogillio downed a double drop-tine whitetail trophy on Nov. 30 while hunting at Giles Island Hunting Club. But the 22-year-old never dreamed he’d have a chance to find out what the saying “like father, like son” meant 61 days later at the same place. […]

Yazoo County 15-year-old downs huge typical buck

January 23, 2012 Craig Holt

Fifteen-year-old Josh Alford of Brandon knew what buck he wanted to kill when he hit the woods with his brother and uncle during Christmas break because the big 12-point typical had been captured on trail-cam photos several times.

What Alford didn’t know until he killed it on Dec. 29 was that it was just a monster Yazoo County deer: It has been green scored by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks at 192 gross inches. […]

Sunflower County gives up 187-inch typical buck

January 7, 2012 Craig Holt

Brian Andrus got a second chance at the buck of his lifetime Nov. 28, and made it pay off by downing one of the great typical bucks of the 2011-12 hunting season. […]